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Shadow Credentials Privilege Escalation

by mukul975

Shadow Credentials Privilege Escalation is a DevOps skill for Claude Code, published by mukul975 in Anthropic-Cybersecurity-Skills.

27.8K stars3.4K forkson mukul975/Anthropic-Cybersecurity-SkillsAdded 2026/08/14Repository updated 2026/08/08
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Install Shadow Credentials Privilege Escalation
Copy Shadow Credentials Privilege Escalation into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.
terminal
npx degit https://github.com/mukul975/Anthropic-Cybersecurity-Skills/tree/main/skills/abusing-shadow-credentials-for-privesc ~/.claude/skills/abusing-shadow-credentials-for-privesc

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/mukul975/Anthropic-Cybersecurity-Skills.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file
skills/abusing-shadow-credentials-for-privesc/SKILL.md in mukul975/Anthropic-Cybersecurity-Skills
Installs to
~/.claude/skills/abusing-shadow-credentials-for-privesc
Collection
One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category
DevOps798 skills

What Shadow Credentials Privilege Escalation does

Shadow Credentials Privilege Escalation abuses the msDS-KeyCredentialLink attribute to append an attacker-controlled key and recover the target's NT hash via PKINIT, enabling account takeover without resetting passwords when BloodHound shows write access over the attribute.

Shadow Credentials Privilege Escalation is cataloged under DevOps on DirSkills. Shadow Credentials Privilege Escalation comes from a repository tagged ai-agents, claude-code, cloud-security, cybersecurity and devsecops.

Frequently asked about Shadow Credentials Privilege Escalation

  • What else does mukul975 publish alongside Shadow Credentials Privilege Escalation?

    Shadow Credentials Privilege Escalation is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from mukul975/Anthropic-Cybersecurity-Skills, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include API Gateway Log Analysis, Abusing DPAPI for Credential Access and Achieving CMMC Level 2 Compliance. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Shadow Credentials Privilege Escalation does, and is maintained by mukul975 in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the mukul975/Anthropic-Cybersecurity-Skills page.

  • How does Shadow Credentials Privilege Escalation compare to other DevOps skills?

    Shadow Credentials Privilege Escalation ranks #62 by stars among the 798 DevOps skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Backend Patterns, API Connector Builder and Migration. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Shadow Credentials Privilege Escalation against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.

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